Spent Saturday and Sunday at our new to us catamaran down in Southern New England getting to know her better. I had already been down to see her twice before, the second one with a marine surveyor finding the source(es) of her leaks. Some were hardware needing rebedding and others were plugged drain hoses from wells around hatches. I managed to extract the water from her hulls by using a couple of tools. The first one came with the boat, which tells me that at least the previous two owners knew they had water ingress. It was a bilge pump on a long broom stick to lower into the sealed compartments via an inspection plate. Pumped out 30 gallons from the starboard aft compartment, the source being 6 mounting bolts for the swim ladder. They were loose. This is what I/they used. It worked well, but just a bandaid.
I finished up with my extractor. Not much to talk about left.
Because of the survey, I knew there was water in the compartment holding the black water tank, but not how much. Likely caused by a plugged hatch well drain that I freed during the survey. I used my west marine extractor to pull the water out of that, about 20 gallons.
No pics.
The interior was pretty dry aside from the port lights needing replacement/rebedding. There was water forward in the hull where the shower bilge pump is located. 8 or so gallons taken out by extractor. Sponged out the last little bit.
We left her high and dry on the hard, hauled out on Friday via crane, a day ahead of hurricane Lee.
Removed the beat up dinghy from the davits and lowered the 8 hp Yamaha using a davit for the motor.
Brought the rib dinghy home with motor, we brought the trailer with us. Loaded up the bed of the truck with “stuff” to keep and called it a good start.
She has been in the Ocean for two years to and from the Bahamas and needs a good hull cleaning.